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Seattle’s mystery soda machine vanished in 2018 with a goodbye note

Ellsworth Toohey
May 08, 2026
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By Another Believer - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

For roughly two decades, a battered 1970s Coca-Cola machine sat on the sidewalk outside Broadway Locksmith on East John Street in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, and nobody seemed to own it. Drinks cost 55 cents back in 2002, climbed to 75 cents by 2014, and reached a buck right when Seattle rolled out its sweet…

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